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

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

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

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.