What is well done, I feel as if I did; what is ill-done, I reck not of.

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.

A scholar is a man with his inconvenience, that, when you ask him his opinion of any matter, he must go home and look up his manuscripts to know.

Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.

When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

To be a man is to be a nonconformist.