The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.

Good temper is an estate for life.

Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.

The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.

The more a man writes, the more he can write.