What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.

No really great man ever thought himself so.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.