To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

If you want to pay little, then do so. If you want to pay all, then do so. Please do not play games to try and remove the responsibility to pay your dues.

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.