It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.

I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

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.

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.