People hate who makes you feel one's inferiority.

You must be respectful and assenting, but without being servile and abject. You must be frank, but without indiscretion, and close, without being costive. You must keep up dignity of character, without the least pride of birth, or rank. You must be gay, within all the bounds of decency and respect; and grave, without the affectation of wisdom, which does not become the age of twenty. You must be essentially secret, without being dark and mysterious. You must be firm, and even bold, but with great seeming modesty.

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

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.