Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence.

If my heart were not light, I would die.

Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.