As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.

Injustice arises either from precipitation, or indolence, or from a mixture of both. - The rapid and slow are seldom just; the unjust wait either not at all, or wait too long.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

Good-humor is always a success.

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

Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.