There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

When a man feel the reprehension of a friend seconded by his own heart, he is easily heated into resentment.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.