Nothing can constitute good-breeding that has not good-nature for its foundation.

Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous.

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.