When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.

We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.