One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

A proud man is satisfied with his own good opinion, and does not seek to make converts to it.