If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

Half talent is no talent.

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.

Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.

Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.