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.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

Man without religion is a diseased creature, who would persuade himself he is well and needs not a physician; but woman without religion is raging and monstrous.

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