The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book; he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.

Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

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.

An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation.

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.