Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

He that compares what he has done with what he has left undone, will feel the effect which must always follow the comparison of imagination with reality; he will look with contempt on his own unimportance, and wonder to what purpose he came into the world; he will repine that he shall leave behind him no evidence of his having been, that he has added nothing to the system of life, but has glided from youth to age among the crowd, without any effort for distinction.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.