A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.

Each man calls barbarism what is not his own practice for indeed it seems we have no other test of truth and reason that the example and pattern of the opinions and customs of t ...

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.

I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field ...