We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.

A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.