Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.