A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

Pleasure is by much the most laborious trade I know, especially for those who have not a vocation to it.

we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.