 The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. |
| The incentive to ambition is the love of power. |
| No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves. |
| Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits. |
| Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. |
| There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you. |
| Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. |
| To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. |
| Learning is its own exceeding great reward. |
| People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. |
| Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal. |
| Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else. |
| Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke. |
| Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life. |
| To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. |
| Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. |
| If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you. |
| Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. |
| Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. |
| Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. |
