Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.

Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).

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

No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.