Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.