Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other, and thus makes him necessary to society. ... Society can never prosper, but must always be bankrupt, until every man does that which he was created to do.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

It is in bad taste," is the most formidable word an Englishman can pronounce.

Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.