To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

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

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.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.