Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

A doctrinaire is a fool but an honest man.