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Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed ...more

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Perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious...more

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Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply w...more

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks is truth and every other man has a right to knock him down for it.

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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd it may be thought to b...more

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In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.