Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

The mind may be exhausted, but the language of the heart is inexhaustible.

Men have made of fortune an all-powerful goddess, in order that she may be made responsible for all their blunder's.

The mind's pleasures are made to calm the tempests of the heart.

[Ridicule] laughs at all those who see the earnestness of life and who still believe in true feelings and in serious thought ... It soils the hope of youth. Only shameless vice is above its reach.

There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea.

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.