Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

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 man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.