He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high; but we must remember that men are not angels.

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.