Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.