Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.