Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another but let him work...
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.