Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?

Shakespeare, Butler and Bacon have rendered it extremely difficult for all who come after them to be sublime, witty or profound.

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.