The public have neither shame or gratitude.
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.
Spleen can subsist on any kind of food.
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.
The love of fame is almost another name for the love of excellence; or it is the ambition to attain the highest excellence, sanctioned by the highest authority, that of time.