If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives.

We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.