To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

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

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.