Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.