Love can be founded upon Nature only.
Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.
May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.
People can commend the weather without envy.
Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.