He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.

Any one is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

We learn to curb our will and keep our overt actions within the bounds of humanity, long before we can subdue our sentiments and imaginations to the same mild tone.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.

The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars—the scholar of nature.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.