True friendship is self-love at second-hand.

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.