The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors.

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?