Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.

Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.

Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in
Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: read more

Thy neck is a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in
Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower
Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

By outward show let's not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated.

By outward show let's not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of read more

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by read more

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.