We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Delay in justice is injustice.

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

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

Men universally are ungrateful towards him who instructs them, unless, in the hours or in the intervals of instruction, he presents a sweet-cake to their self-love.

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.