The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.

The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.