Vision is seeing the invisible.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.

An excuse is a lie guarded.