Avoid connecting yourself with characters whose good and bad sides are unmixed and have not fermented together; they resemble vials of vinegar and oil; or palletts set with colors; they are either excellent at home and insufferable abroad, or intolerable within doors and excellent in public; they are unfit for friendship, merely because their stamina, their ingredients of character are too single, too much apart; let them be finely ground up with each other, and they are incomparable.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

The worst of faces still is human.

The public seldom forgive twice.

Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.