Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
A distinction has been made between acuteness and subtlety of understanding. This might be illustrated by saying that acuteness consists in taking up the points or solid atoms, subtlety in feeling the air of truth.