Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently they support themselves by temporary means, and everyday is lost in contriving for tomorrow.

Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed