Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

Who, in the midst of just provocation to anger, instantly finds the fit word which settles all around him in silence is more than wise or just; he is, were he a beggar, of more than royal blood, he is of celestial descent.

Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.