Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.

Faith is necessary to victory.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.