We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals. And have no hope of rising in their own self esteem but by lowering their neighbors.

Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.

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

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.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.