Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.