Poverty, when it is voluntary, is never despicable, but takes an heroical aspect.
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.
He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.
I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.