Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.