The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
Time,--the most independent of all things.
There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.
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.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. We attempt nothing great but from a sense of the difficulties we have to encounter, we persevere in nothing great but from a pride in overcoming them.