“Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.”

“The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.”

“The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.”

“No truly great person ever thought themselves so.”

“Persons without education certainly do not want [lack] either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction--they see their objects always near, never in the horizon.”

“I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.”

“He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.”