He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

Those who speak always and those who never speak are equally unfit for friendship. A food proportion of the talent of listening and speaking is the base of social virtues.

The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...