To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.

I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

No knowledge is useless, with the exception of heraldry.

Every man is of importance to himself.

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

If we will have the kindness of others, we must endure their follies.