The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

Honest men are the gentlemen of nature.

Fate whirls on the bark, and the rough gale sweeps from the rising tide the lazy calm of thought.

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains. Even when the original author of some healthy and useful truth is forgotten, the truth survives, transplanted to works more calculated to purify it from error, and perpetuate it to our benefit.

There is no society, however free and democratic, where wealth will not create an aristocracy.