An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Despotism sits nowhere so secure as under the effigy and ensigns of freedom.
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
The deafest man can hear praise, and is slow to think any an excess.
I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.
When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.