The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

The wonder is not that the world is so easily governed, but that so small a number of persons will suffice for the purpose. There are dead weights in political and legislative bodies as in clocks, and hundreds answer as pulleys who would never do for politicians.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.