Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

I know not any crime so great that a man could contrive to commit as poisoning the sources of eternal truth.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.