The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.