To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.

Habit is necessary to give power.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.