Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.

There's scarce a point whereon mankind agree - So well as in their boast of killing me; I boast of nothing, but when I've a mind - I think I can be even with mankind

Democracy is just a filler for textbooks! Do you actually believe that public opinion influences the government?

He is lifeless that is faultless.

He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it.