Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Heroes are a mischievous race.

As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room

Patient waiting is often the highest way of doing God's will.