Female friendships are of rapid growth.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few.

You must not contrast too strongly the hours of courtship with the years of possession.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The test of political institutions is the condition of the country whose future they regulate.

I do not understand how an aristocracy can exist, unless it be distinguished by some quality which no other class of the community possesses.