What Passes For An Original

Nothing Makes People So Worthy Of Compliments As Receiving Them. One Is More Delightful For Being Told One Is Delightful-just As One Is More Angry For Being Told One Is Angry.

Each Man's Private Conscience Ought To Be A Nice Little Self-registering Thermometer: He Ought To Carry His Moral Code Incorruptibly And Explicitly Within Himself, And Not Care What The World Thinks. The Mass Of Human Beings, However, Are Not Made That Way; And Many People Have Been Saved From Crime Or Sin By The Simple Dislike Of Doing Things They Would Not Like To Confess.

... If We Have A Dollar To Spend On Some Wild Excess, We Shall Spend It On A Book, Not On Asparagus Out Of Season.

Some Of The Men And Women Who Will Not Say In So Many Words The Thing Which Is Not, Will Deliberately Give A False Impression. They Are Not The Servants Of Truth; They Are The Parasites Of Truth.

It Is Not Permissible To Lie Merely To Save One's Face. But It Is Sometimes Permissible To Lie To Save Another Person's Face.