Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence.
None are happy but by anticipation of change.
There is less flogging in our great schools than formerly-but then less is learned there; so what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.