Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.

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.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

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

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.