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

When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

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

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.

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.

The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.