Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

We all covet wealth, but not its perils.

The very essence of politeness seems to be to take care that by our words and actions we make other people pleased with us as well as with themselves.

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.