Don't set your wit against a child.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

Few are qualified to shine in company, but it is in most men's power to be agreeable.

Perverseness is your whole defence.

It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

Live every day as your last, because one of these days, it will be.