True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.

Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.