Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

In the condition of men, it frequently happens that grief and anxiety lie hid under the golden robes of prosperity; and the gloom of calamity is cheered by secret radiations of hope and comfort; as in the works of nature, the bog is sometimes covered with flowers, and the mine concealed in the barren crags.

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

Of all kinds of credulity, the most obstinate is that of party-spirit; of men, who, being numbered, they know not why, in any party, resign the use of their own eyes and ears, and resolve to believe nothing that does not favor those whom they profess to follow.