“The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.”

“Life is the art of being well-deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.”

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.”

“The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.”

“The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.”

“Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?”

“Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?”