Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious; but, for the same reason, every one is eager to instruct his neighbors.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.