I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.
When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him, though we may love and admire him.
The man who stops making new friends eventually will have none.
There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation.
In every picture there should be shade as well as light.
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.