To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.
parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.
Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.
It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.
The abuse of terms has at all times been an evil.
Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious.