Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

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.

I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

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

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility