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

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

Make no enemies; he is insignificant indeed that can do thee no harm.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.

Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.