Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.

The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.