He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.

A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a secret. It is not many years since a State secret of the greatest importance was printed without being divulged, merely by sending it to the press like any other matter, and trusting to the mechanical habits of the persons employed. They printed it piecemeal in ignorance of what it was about.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

The philosophy which affects to teach us a contempt of money does not run very deep; for, indeed, it ought to be still more clear to the philosopher than it is to ordinary men, that there are few things in the world of greater importance.