It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties.

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Milton, Madam, was a genius that could cut a Colossus from a rock; but could not carve heads upon cherry-stones.

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.

Few moments are more pleasing than those in which the mind is concerting measures for a new undertaking.

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.