Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.

Public opinion is the atmosphere of society, without which the forces of the individual would collapse, and all the institutions of society fly into atoms.

I would give more for the private esteem and love of one than for the public praise of ten thousand.

Every man is his own greatest dupe.

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

The God of merely traditional believers is the great Absentee of the universe.

Tears are the tribute of humanity to its destiny.