An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

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.

In honest truth, a name given to a man is no better than a skin given to him; what is not natively his own falls off and comes to nothing.

The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.

Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.

Those who in living fill the smallest space, In death have often left the greatest void.

Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance.