Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster: and even polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.

People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.