To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.

Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.