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

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.