There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.