When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

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

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

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

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

Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.