There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

Patron: One who countenances, supports or protects. Commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is repaid in flattery.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.