Envy is littleness of soul.

Good temper is an estate for life.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a real confession of the deficiency it indicates. He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.