Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.

Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

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.

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.