Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi∣ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.