All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.