If your doctor does not think it good for you to sleep, to drink wine, or to eat of a particular dish, do not worry; I will find you another who will not agree with him.

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is...opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.

It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification