A Great Mind Is One That Can

Whatever Excites The Spirit Of Contradiction Is Capable Of Producing The Last Effects Of Heroism; Which Is Only The Highest Pitch Of Obstinacy, In A Good Or Bad Cause, In Wisdom Or Folly.

An Honest Man Speaks The Truth, Though It May Give Offence; A Vain Man, In Order That It May.

A Great Chessplayer Is Not A Great Man, For He Leaves The World As He Found It.

A Whig Is Properly What Is Called A Trimmer - That Is, A Coward To Both Sides Of The Question, Who Dare Not Be A Knave Nor An Honest Man, But Is A Sort Of Whiffing, Shuffling, Cunning, Silly, Contemptible, Unmeaning Negation Of The Two.

Avarice Is The Miser's Dream, As Fame Is The Poet's.