"Reason is the slave of passion"
"a hundred suspicions don't make a proof."
"If there's a hundredth part of a false note in speaking the truth, it leads to a discord, and that leads to trouble, But if all to the last note, is false in flattery, it is just as agreeable, and is heard not without satisfaction. It may be a coarse, satisfaction, but still a satisfaction, And however coarse the flattery, at least half will be sure to seem true. That's so so for all stages of development and classes of society."
"a hundred suspicions don't make a proof."
"If there's a hundredth part of a false note in speaking the truth, it leads to a discord, and that leads to trouble, But if all to the last note, is false in flattery, it is just as agreeable, and is heard not without satisfaction. It may be a coarse, satisfaction, but still a satisfaction, And however coarse the flattery, at least half will be sure to seem true. That's so so for all stages of development and classes of society."