Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

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

The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.

Good temper is an estate for life.

The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.