I am not, and have never been, in favor of boycotting Israel.
The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
Never kick a man when he's up.
As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.
Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
Purity is the ability to contemplate defilement.