Assurance and intrepidity, under the white banner of seeming modesty, clear the way for merit, that would otherwise be discouraged by difficulties...

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.