We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

Where power is absent we may find the robe of genius, but we miss the throne.

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.

Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature.

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.