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

A woman's vanity is interested in making the object of her choice the god of her idolatry.

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.

The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science in it. If we pass ""no day without a line""-visit no place without the company of a book-we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. The more we do, the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

It is only those who never think at all, or else who have accustomed themselves to blood invariably on abstract ideas, that ever feel ennui.