Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.
Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.