Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.