We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

There are people whom one should like very well to drop, but would not wish to be dropped by.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.