Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.