Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

Every man has his devilish minutes.