Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.

Every one in a crowd has the power to throw dirt; none out of ten have the inclination.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.