“And surely one of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.”

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.

The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.

Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Books, the children of the brain.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

The best thing to do is dive with your imagination ~ you can never drown yourself.

I’ve always thought that the best solution for those who feel helpless is for them to help others.

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The best work happens when you know that it’s not just work, but something that will improve other people’s lives.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.