Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.

Firmness of purpose is one of the most necessary sinews of character, and one of the best instruments of success. Without it, genius wastes its efforts in a maze of inconsistencies.

The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.

Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

The most familiar and intimate habitudes, connections, friendships, require a degree of good-breeding both to preserve and cement them.

Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.