A nation has a fixed quantity of invention, and it will make itself felt.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

I look upon parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly one most suited to England. But without the discipline of political connection, animated by the principle of private honor, I feel certain that a popular assembly would sink before the power or the corruption of a minister.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervour.