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.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

A situation in a public office is secure, but laborious and mechanical, and without the great springs of life, hope and fear.

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

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.