Conceit Is Vanity Driven From All Other

The Severest Critics Are Always Those Who Have Either Never Attempted, Or Who Have Failed In Original Composition.

Death Puts An End To Rivalship And Competition. The Dead Can Boast No Advantage Over Us, Nor Can We Triumph Over Them.

Anyone Is To Be Pitied Who Has Just Sense Enough To Perceive His Deficiencies.

First Impressions Are Often The Truest, As We Find (not Unfrequently) To Our Cost When We Have Been Wheedled Out Of Them By Plausible Professions Or Actions. A Man's Look Is The Work Of Years, It Is Stamped On His Countenance By The Events Of His Whole Life, Nay, More, By The Hand Of Nature, And It Is Not To Be Got Rid Of Easily.

From The Height From Which The Great Look Down On The World All The Rest Of Mankind Seem Equal.