Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough.