We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.