The pest of society is egotists.

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

A man of no conversation should smoke.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Let ideas establish their legitimate sway again in society, let life be fair and poetic, and the scholars will gladly be lovers, citizens, and philanthropists.