1. “Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.”
2. “Prejudice is the child of ignorance.”
3. “Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.”
4. “Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.”
5. “As is our confidence, so is our capacity.”
6. “He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.”
7. “The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.”
8. “A wise traveller never despises his own country.”
9. “No truly great person ever thought themselves so.”
10. “Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.”
11. “The incentive to ambition is the love of power.”
12. “Wit is the salt of conversation,, not the food.”
13. “He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.”
14. “We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.”
15. “To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.”
16. “The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.”
17. “Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity.”
18. “The art of conversation is the art of hearing as well as of being heard.”
19. “When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”
20. “The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.”
