Envy is littleness of soul.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.

It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.