A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

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 person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.

There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.