Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.