Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.

An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently overturn in him one of the great pillars of morality.

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.