The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.
A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.