To be remembered after we are dead, is but a poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. - William Hazlitt

The way to secure success, is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it; the surest hindrance to it is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the discernment of the public.

The whole art of training consists in two things, exercise and abstinence, abstinence and exercise, repeated alternately without end.

I bear the creature no ill-will, but still I hate the very sight of it.