Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Most men know what they hate, few what they love.

Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned.

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!