Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

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

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.

Women are proverbially credulous.

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

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

All finery is a sign of littleness.