No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.

Faith is necessary to victory.

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

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.

Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.