He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.

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

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

Malice is poisoned by her own venom.

The worst of faces still is human.

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.