The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market..

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work..

Brutes leave ingratitude to man..

He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity..

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results..

None of us are so much praised or censured as we think..

Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, be….

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a w….

The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason..

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both th….

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm..

Love, like the cold bath, is never negative, it seldom leaves us where it finds us; if once we plunge into it, it will either heighten our virtues, o….

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest..

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books..

We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are a….

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument..

Philosophy is a goddess, whose head indeed is in heaven, but whose feet are upon earth; she attempts more than she accomplishes, and promises more th….

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us..

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only s….

He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. ….

Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number; and not only enables us to enjoy more of e….