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

Within my heart is lurking suspicion, and base fear, and shame and hate; but above all, tyrannous love sits throned, crowned with her graces, silent and in tears.

No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.