The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

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.

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

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

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.