Gratitude is a useless word. You will find it in a dictionary but not in life.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.