All Quotes

Learning is its own exceeding great reward. ”

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. ”

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity. ”

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. ”

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest. ”

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased. ”

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. ”

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. ”

We must be doing something to be happy. ”

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. ”