Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.

A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

A really great man has always an idea of something greater than himself.

The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.

Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.