To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.

Real friendship is a slow grower.

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

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

Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.