He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.

There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.

Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.

A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.