He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.