Borrowed wit is the poorest wit.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Where pride begins, love ceases.

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

The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

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.

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.