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

It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.

Whatever interests is interesting.

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.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

The measure of any man's virtue is what he would do, if he had neither the laws nor public opinion, nor even his own prejudices, to control him.