Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

It is, the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race. In their welfare is ours, and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness we choose the surest and the shortest to our own.

Society is a long series of uprising ridges, which from the first to the last offer no valley of repose. Whenever you take your stand, you are looked down upon by those above you, and reviled and pelted by those below you. Every creature you see is a farthing Sisyphus, pushing his little stone up some Liliputian mole-hill. This is our world.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.

Rank is a great beautifier.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.