Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

Good temper is an estate for life.

The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.