Those who despise fame seldom deserve it. We are apt to undervalue the purchase we cannot reach, to conceal our poverty the better. It is a spark which kindles upon the best fuel, and burns brightest in the bravest breast.

People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.

Envy is an ill-natured vice, and is made up of meanness and malice. It wishes the force of goodness to be strained, and the measure of happiness abated. It laments over prosperity, and sickens at the sight of health. It oftentimes wants spirit as well as good nature.

Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.