Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

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.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.