You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

Our self-love is mortified, when we think our opinions, and even our tastes, customs, and dresses, either arraigned or condemned;as, on the contrary, it is tickled and flattered by approbation.

The rulers of the earth are all worth knowing; they suggest moral reflections: and the respect that one naturally has for God's vice-regents here on earth is greatly increased by acquaintance with them.

Give Dayrolles a chair.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.