"The falling drops at last will wear the stone."

"Such evil deeds could religion prompt."

"What is food to one, is to others bitter poison."

"If men saw that a term was set to their troubles, they would find strength in some way to withstand the hocus-pocus and intimidations of the prophets."

"So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it."

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

"Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

"The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."

"The greater man the greater courtesy."

"Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours."