A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.