“We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own”

“We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.”

“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”

“Never cut what you can untie”

“Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”

“How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.”

“The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.”