I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.

It is natural that affluence should be followed by influence.

Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.

There is a glare about worldly success which is very apt to dazzle men's eyes.

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election.

Many men spend their lives in gazing at their own shadows, and so dwindle away into shadows thereof.

They who disbelieve in virtue because man has never been found perfect, might as reasonably deny the sun because it is not always noon.