If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.