We ought to regard amiability as the quality of woman, dignity that of man.

Before beginning, plan carefully.

Scurrility has no object in view but incivility; if it is uttered from feelings of petulance, it is mere abuse; if it is spoken in a joking manner, it may be considered raillery.

In friendship we find nothing false or insincere; everything is straight forward, and springs from the heart.

Things perfected by nature are better than those finished by art.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!