It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.