The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

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.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

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.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.