Good breeding consists in having no particular mark of any profession, but a general elegance of manners.

To excite opposition and inflame malevolence is the unhappy privilege of courage made arrogant by consciousness of strength.

You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.