Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.
As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.
The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.
Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.