He is greatest who is most often in men's good thoughts.

They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot.

He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.

The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.

It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of.

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

We all love best not those who offend us least, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.