The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.

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.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!