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 has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you?

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.