Pride is therefore pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that m…

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long is he determined not to do it: and consequently, so long it is impossible to him that he shou…

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.