We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.