Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.

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

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

We are never so much disposed to quarrel with others as when we are dissatisfied with ourselves.

From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.

Principle is a passion for truth.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.