Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally

Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

Remorse turns us against ourselves.