Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.

Wherever the Government does not emanate...from the people, the principle of the Government, the esprit de corps, the point of honour, in all those connected with it, and raised by it to privileges above the law and above humanity, will be hatred to the people.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.