The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.
Those who wish to appear learned to fools, appear as fools to the learned.
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come up with him: a follower, necessarily, is always behind.