It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even in prudent, cautious circumspection.

Better too much form than too little.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

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.

It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

The more secure we feel against our liability to any error to which, in fact, we are liable, the greater must be our danger of falling into it.