Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.