The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.