To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.