To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will -the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.