I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

No truly great person ever thought themselves so.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

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

The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.

The devil was a great loss in the preternatural world. He was always something to fear and to hate; he supplied the antagonist powers of the imagination, and the arch of true religion hardly stands firm without him.