The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.

Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly true,--that shepherds and ministers are both men; their natures and passions the same, the modes of them only different.

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.