We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

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

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!