Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

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.

He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.