A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.

The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add.

English history is aristocracy with the doors open. Who has courage and faculty, let him come in.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser.

Wise men are not wise at all times.