Air and manners are more expressive than words.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

The unhappy never want enemies.