No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength, and a destroyer of what little there may be.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.

Those who speak against the great do not usually speak from morality, but from envy.

Authors are like cattle going to a fair: those of the same field can never move on without butting one another.

The wise become as the unwise in the enchanted chambers of Power, whose lamps make every face the same colour.

Cruelty is the highest pleasure to the cruel man; it is his love.

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.