All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends - Dress is a table of your contents.

The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.

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.

He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.

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.