There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

Whatever interests is interesting.