Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge; if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool.

When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.