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.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

Softness of smile indicates softness of character.

The more any one speaks of himself, the less he likes to hear another talked of.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.