The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

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.