Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies?

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Power is gradually stealing away from the many to the few, because the few are more vigilant and consistent.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.

Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.