Good people are always so sure they're right.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.

What, man! more water glideth by the mill That wots the miller of; and easy it is Of a cut loaf to steal a shive, we know: Though Bassianus be the emperor's brother, Better then he have worn Vulcan's badge.

There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance.

A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but, be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience, reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of their hats'? The cock's all."

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men.

If you want to give a man credit, put it in writing. If you want to give him hell, do it on the phone.

I know exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

Thinking is more stinking than drinking, but to feel is for real.

The love received is the love that is saved.

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

No really great man ever thought himself so. - William Hazlitt,

Winged words.

"What is a church?" Let Truth and reason speak, They would reply, "The faithful, pure and meek, From Christian folds, the one selected race, Of all professions, and in every place."

Words are but empty thanks.