Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.