Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles. There is a secret pride in every human heart than revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

Conceit is vanity driven from all other shifts, and forced to appeal to itself for admiration.

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

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.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.