Among other pleasing errors of young minds is the opinion of their own importance. He that has not yet remarked, how little attention his contemporaries can spare from themselves, conceives all eyes turned upon himself, and imagines everyone that approaches him to be an enemy or a follower, an admirer or a spy.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval between dinner and supper.