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

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

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