The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

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

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

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

The more a man writes, the more he can write.