Moderation cannot have the credit of combatiug and subduing ambition, they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and indolence of the soul, as ambition is its activity and ardor.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.

The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.