A strong passion for any object will ensure success for the desire of the end will point out the means.
If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power.
It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
Modern fanaticism thrives in proportion to the quanitity of contradictions and nonsense it poures down the throats of the gaping multitude, and the jargon and mysticism it offers to their wonder and c...
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt it takes off the edge of admiration.
As is our confidence so is our capacity.
The more we do, the more we can do.
The public have neither shame nor gratitude.
Actors are the only honest hypocrites.
Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room.
The soul of dispatch is decision.
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necess...
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.