There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.

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

We had rather do anything than acknowledge the merit of another if we can help it. We cannot bear a superior or an equal. Hence ridicule is sure to prevail over truth, for the malice of mankind, thrown into the scale, gives the casting weight.

The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.