"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

"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."

"As is our confidence, so is our capacity."

"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."

"To write a genuine familiar or truly English style, is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes."

"Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive."

"The busier we are the more leisure we have."

"Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice."

"The path of genius is free, and its own."

"Repose is necessary to great efforts, and he who is never idle, labours in vain!"

"The art of pleasing consists in being pleased."

"We are not hypocrites in our sleep."

"We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them."

"If a person has no delicacy he has you in his power."

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."

"We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves."

"Rules and models destroy genius and art."

"No young man ever thinks he shall die."

"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could."

"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

"If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation."

"Actors are the only honest hypocrites."

"The more we do the more we can do the more busy we are the more leisure we have."