No man ever became wise by chance.

Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.

It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.