True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.
Despair swallows up cowardice.
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
Those who are pleased with the fewest things know the least, as those who are pleased with everything know nothing.
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.