He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.
Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.
No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.
From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise
The dangers gather as the treasures rise.
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself.