What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.

Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.

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 diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

Faith is necessary to victory.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.