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

Shall I faint, now that I have poured out the spirit of my mind to the world, and treated many subjects with truth, with freedom, with power, because I have been followed with one cry of abuse ever since for not being a Government tool?

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.