A little praise is good for a shy temper; it teaches it to rely on the kindness of others.
Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for never is life so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.