Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Physical ills are the taxes laid upon this wretched life; some are taxed higher, and some lower, but all pay something.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

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.

Should you be unfortunate enough to have vices, you may, to a certain degree, even dignify them by a strict observance of decorum;at least they will lose something of their natural turpitude.

Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others, is essentially the same in every country; but good breeding, asit is called, which is the manner of exerting that disposition, is different in almost every country, and merely local; and every man of sense imitates and conforms to that local good breeding of the place which he is at.

Good-breeding carries along with it a dignity that is respected by the most petulant. Ill-breeding invites and authorizes the familiarity of the most timid.