“Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.”

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Evil prevails when good men fail to act.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Flattery won’t hurt you if you don’t swallow it.

Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation.

I’m starting to see players copy what I do. I’m flattered.

I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.

Gossip is what you say about the objects of flattery when they aren’t present.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.