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

There is no such test of a man's superiority of character as in the well-conducting of an unavoidable quarrel.

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

I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

Wisdom is corrupted by ambition, even when the quality of the ambition is intellectual. For ambition, even of this quality, is but a form of self-love.

We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,- For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.

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