The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

To impress the idea of power on others, they must be made in some way to feel it.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.