The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

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.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

The temple of fame stands upon the grave: the flame that burns upon its altars is kindled from the ashes of great men.

It is not the passion of a mind struggling with misfortune, or the hopelessness of its desires, but of a mind preying on itself, and disgusted with, or indifferent to all other things.