As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
To follow imperfect, uncertain, or corrupted traditions, in order to avoid erring in our own judgment, is but to exchange one danger for another.
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.
Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
