Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

Vanity and rudeness are seldom seen together.

Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.

Where pride begins, love ceases.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

Who forces himself on others is to himself a load. Impetuous curiosity is empty and inconstant. Prying intrusion may be suspected of whatever is little.