She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

Many very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in them offensive or disgusting. - But a large brown wart on the upper lip, especially when it is bristly, will be found in no person who is not defective in something essential, or at least remarkable for some conspicuous failing.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigour and decision. - Who hastens to the end is silent: loudness is impotence.

Defeat serves to enlighten us.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

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