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

Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.

The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.