A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

A great mind will neither give an affront nor bear it.

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution; delicacy of taste, to calmness and sedateness. Hence it is common to find genius in one who is a prey to every passion.

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.