None are so seldom found alone, and are so soon tired of their own company, as those coxcombs who are on the best terms with themselves.

The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

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

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.