He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.