To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.