Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.