In your friendships and in your enmities let your confidence and your hostilities have certain bounds; make not the former dangerous, nor the latter irreconcilable. There are strange vicissitudes in business.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today

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

There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.

A vulgar man is captious and jealous; eager and impetuous about trifles. He suspects himself to be slighted, and thinks everything that is said meant at him.

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.