No one ever became great by imitation.

In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.