As all error is meanness, it is incumbent on every man who consults his own dignity, to retract it as soon as he discovers it.

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.

By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Human happiness has always its abatements; the brightest sunshine of success is not without a cloud.