We listen to those whom we know to be of the same opinion as ourselves, and we call them wise for being of it; but we avoid such as differ from us.

There is a gravity which is not austere nor captious, which belongs not to melancholy nor dwells in contraction of heart: but arises from tenderness and hangs upon reflection.

There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

Cats like men are flatterers.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.