The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

The public have neither shame or gratitude.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

Happy are they who live in the dream of their own existence, and see all things in the light of their own minds; who walk by faith and hope; to whom the guiding star of their youth still shines from afar, and into whom the spirit of the world has not entered! They have not been "hurt by the archers", nor has the iron entered their souls. The world has no hand on them.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.