Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

The idea of what the public will think prevents the public from ever thinking at all, and acts as a spell on the exercise of private judgment.

To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.