He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.

There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.