Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.

Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.