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

“We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.”

“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?”

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

“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.”

“A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.”