No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world.