There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.
Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.
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.
No young man ever thinks he shall die.
The assumption of merit is easier, less embarrassing, and more effectual than the actual attainment of it.