A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.
Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.
I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.
It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.
It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.