Popularity is neither fame nor greatness.

Envy is the most universal passion. We only pride ourselves on the qualities we possess, or think we possess; but we envy the pretensions we have, and those which we have not, and do not even wish for. We envy the greatest qualities and every trifling advantage. We envy the most ridiculous appearance or affectation of superiority. We envy folly and conceit; nay, we go so far as to envy whatever confers distinction of notoriety, even vice and infamy.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.

We often forget our dreams so speedily: if we cannot catch them as they are passing out at the door, we never set eyes on them again.

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

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.