Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.