No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

There is nothing more to be esteemed than a manly firmness and decision of character.

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.