When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.