Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.