A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.