There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

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

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

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.

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

He who, in questions of right, virtue, or duty, sets himself above all ridicule, is truly great, and shall laugh in the end with truer mirth than ever he was laughed at.