Three days of uninterrupted company in a vehicle will make you better acquainted with another, than one hour's conversation with him every day for three years.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

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

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

The conscience is more wise than science.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.