Emulation is active virtue; envy is brooding malice.
Men are always optimists when they look inwards, and pessimists when they look round them.
Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
Youth without faith is a day without sun.
Fame! it is the flower of a day, that dies when the next sun rises.
Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.