It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.