Too Great Refinement Is False

A Fool Has Not Material Enough To Be Good. [fr., Un Sot N'a Pas Assez D'etoffe Pour Etre Bon.]

What Men Have Called Friendship Is Only A Social Arrangement, A Mutual Adjustment Of Interests, An Interchange Of Services Given And Received; It Is, In Sum, Simply A Business From Which Those Involved Propose To Derive A Steady Profit For Their Own Self-love.

One Honor Won Is A Surety For More.

We Had Better Appear What We Are, Than Affect To Appear What We Are Not.

Idiots And Lunatics See Only Their Own Wit.