All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.

Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.

. . . I still wouldn't be able to control myself around him, and I'm math geek enough to know that equation doesn't work out.

There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion.

I don't have time for friends.

Affectations can be dangerous.

It's much easier to conjure characters strictly from your imagination than to have to think about whether you're representing people in a truthful way.

You complain, friend Swift, of the length of my epigrams, but you yourself write nothing. Yours are shorter.

In the modern world, we Americans are the old inhabitants. We first had political freedom, high industrial production, an economy of abundance.

Appetite, a universal wolf.