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

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.

every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

Nature's hasty conscience.