The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

Women are proverbially credulous.