The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.

Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.