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

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

Envy is littleness of soul.

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

Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with its happiness or its misery. The love of life is, in general, the effect not of our enjoyments, but of our passions.

Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.