Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.
He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.
More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
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.