Thomas Holcroft

“The mind will ever be aristocratic; it will claim superiority and have it.”

“Woe to the man who meets with a plausible reason for doing what he has a mind to do.”

“The secret of all greatness is to discover what you were born to do in life and then do it.”

“He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.”

“Of all the virtues, magnanimity is the rarest; there are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.”

“Truth is the most powerful of all things.”

“Mankind are in general greater impostors on themselves than on others.”

“Men are the creatures of habit. They are born into certain ways of thinking and acting, and are for the most part contented to die in them.”