We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

The envious will die, but envy never.

Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.