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

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.

Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.

Mankind are so ready to bestow their admiration on the dead, because the latter do not hear it, or because it gives no pleasure to the objects of it. Even fame is the offspring of envy.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

The book-worm wraps himself up in his web of verbal generalities, and sees only the glimmering shadows of things reflected from the minds of others.