Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.
Sir, you must not neglect doing a thing immediately good from fear of remote evil; - from fear of its being abused.