You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

The youth is better than the old age of friendship.