Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.

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

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

Habitual liars invent falsehoods not to gain any end or even to deceive their hearers, but to amuse themselves. It is partly practice and partly habit. It requires an effort in them to speak truth.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.