We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.