Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

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

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.