It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

That is the happiest conversation where there is no competition, no vanity, but a calm, quiet interchange of sentiments...

Wretched un-idea'd girls.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.