Violent antipathies are always suspicious, and betray a secret affinity. - William Hazlitt

The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman is this: The one thinks everything right that is French, while the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

General principles are not the less true or important because, from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it, or like that secret influence which binds the world together and holds the planets in their orbits.