Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.
When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
You can't pay a landlord in dogma.
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.
There's no such thing as an easy stage.