To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.
We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.
Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.
You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.
The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.