Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.