Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

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

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it

Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.