You must look into people, as well as at them.

You must be respectable, if you will be respected.

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

A rake is a composition of all the lowest, most ignoble, degrading, and shameful vices; they all conspire to disgrace his character, and to ruin his fortune; while wine and the pox content which shall soonest and most effectually destroy his constitution.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.