The public have neither shame or gratitude.

Those who have had none of the cares of this life to harass and disturb them, have been obliged to have recourse to the hopes and fears of the next to vary the prospect before them.

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

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.