Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.

An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.

People will no more advance their civility to a bear, than their money to a bankrupt.

I heartily wish you, in the plain home-spun style, a great number of happy new years, well employed in forming both your mind andyour manners, to be useful and agreeable to yourself, your country, and your friends.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.