That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

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

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.