Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little
So willing is every man to flatter himself, that the difference between approving laws, and obeying them, is frequently forgotten; he that acknowledges the obligations of morality and pleases his vanity with enforcing them to others, concludes himself zealous in the cause of virtue.
No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.
No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.
And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.