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.

A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

Every man has his devilish minutes.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

True philosophy is that which renders us to ourselves, and all others who surround us, better, and at the same time more content, more patient, more calm and more ready for all decent and pure enjoyment.

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