Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

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

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.

We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others