Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.