Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

Merit rather enforces respect than attracts fondness.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

The insolence of wealth will creep out.

The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.