The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to seem never to feel it as an evil.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.