There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.

We must be doing something to be happy.

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

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

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

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.