Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of∣fered it.

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

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.