Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The Turks have a proverb which says that the devil tempts all other men, but that idle men tempt the devil.

Miss Edgeworth and Mme. de Stael have proved that there is no sex in style; and Mme. la Roche Jacqueline, and the Duchesse d'Angouleme have proved that there is no sex in courage.