To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

Better too much form than too little.

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is unobstructive: without the latter it is deceptive.

Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at intervals.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object.