Malice often takes the garb of truth. — William Hazlitt

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. Zeal will do more than knowledge. One has no notion of him [William Cobbett] as making use of a fine pen, but a great mutton-fist; his style stuns his readers. . . . He is too much for any single newspaper antagonist; “lays waste” a city orator or Mem… Read more → Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

A friend to all is a friend to none. Aristóteles Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. Albert Camus You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time. also attributed to Phineas Barnum Abraham Lincoln Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times. Mark Twain