I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

If you act, you show character; if you sit still, you show it; if you sleep you show it.

To be gret is to be misunderstood.

The person who screams, or uses the superlative degree, or converses with heat puts whole drawing-rooms to flight. If you wish to be loved, love measure.

If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

He that loveth maketh his own the grandeur he loves

Beware of too much good staying in your hand. It will fast corrupt and worm worms. Pay it away quickly in some sort.