Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.