There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

Never trust your tongue when your heart is bitter.

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

I would injure no man, and should provoke no resentment. I would relieve every distress, and should enjoy the benedictions of gratitude. I would choose my friends among the wise and my wife among the virtuous, and therefore should be in no danger from treachery or unkindness. My children should by my care be learned and pious, and would repay to my age what their childhood had received.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.