Scribblers are a self-conceited and self-worshipping race.
What exile from his country is able to escape from himself?
Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.
Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect.
God can change the lowest to the highest, abase the proud, and raise the humble.
Men more quickly and more gladly recall what they deride than what they approve and esteem.