Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.

A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.

I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.

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

How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

It is a wonderful advantage to a man, in every pursuite or avocation, to secure an adviser in a sensible woman. In woman there is at once a subtle delicacy of tact, and a plain soundness of judgement, which are rarely combined to an equal degree in man. A woman, if she be really your friend, will have a sensitive regard for your character, honor, repute. She will seldom counsel you to do a shabby thing: for a woman friend always desires to be proud of you.