Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the intellect and disposition, only it is frequently less apparent, and we give ourselves but little trouble to discover it.

Where we find echoes, we generally find emptiness and hollowness; it is the contrary with the echoes of the heart.

Friends should be very delicate and careful in administering pity as medicine, when enemies use the same article as poison.

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances.

Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character.

Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.