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

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.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.