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

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

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