A man would rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be known.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

We payt a person the complement of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.

Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its function without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.