A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?

Talent is the capacity of doing anything that depends on application and industry and it is a voluntary power, while genius is involuntary.

Dandyism is a variety of genius.