There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.