A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome; he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.