Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.

He that resigns his peace to little casualties, and suffers the course of his life to be interrupted for fortuitous inadvertencies or offences, delivers up himself to the direction of the wind, and loses all that constancy and equanimity which constitutes the chief praise of a wise man.

The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.