Wonder At The First Sight

I Am Not, In The Ordinary Acceptation Of The Term, A Good-natured Man; That Is, Many Things Annoy Me Besides What Interferes With My Own Ease And Interest. I Hate A Lie; A Piece Of Injustice Wounds Me To The Quick, Though Nothing But The Report Of It Reach Me. Therefore I Have Made Many Enemies And Few Friends; For The Public Know Nothing Of Well-wishers, And Keep A Wary Eye On Those Who Would Reform Them.

In Love We Do Not Think Of Moral Qualities, And Scarcely Of Intellectual Ones. Temperament And Manner Alone, With Beauty, Excite Love.

By Despising All That Has Preceded Us, We Teach Others To Despise Ourselves.

Prosperity Is A Great Teacher; Adversity A Greater.

To-day Kings, To-marrow Beggars, It Is Only When They Are Themselves That They Are Nothing.