He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!

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

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.

Many very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in them offensive or disgusting. - But a large brown wart on the upper lip, especially when it is bristly, will be found in no person who is not defective in something essential, or at least remarkable for some conspicuous failing.

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.