It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue which he alone who can practise in himself can willingly believe in another.

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.