The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.

There is some virtue in almost every vice, except hypocrisy; and even that, while it is a mockery of virtue, is at the same time a compliment to it.

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

A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness. This will apply to all displays of power or trials of skill, which are confined to the momentary, individual effort, and construct no permanent image or trophy of themselves without them

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.