Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.
We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Real friendship is a slow grower.
A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.
Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly true,--that shepherds and ministers are both men; their natures and passions the same, the modes of them only different.