A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.