Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but let them feel at the same time the steadiness of your just resentment for there is a great difference between bearing malice, which is always ungenerous, and a resolute self-defense which is ever prudent and justifiable.

The power of applying attention, steady and undissipated, to a single object, is the sure mark of superior genius.

Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.

Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.

Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.

Ties of blood are not always ties of friendship; but friendship founded on merit, on esteem, and on mutual trust, becomes more vital and more tender when strengthened by the ties of blood.

Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.