Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much; yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.