Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.
True joy is only hope put out of fear.
We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.
Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.
Out of mind as soon as out of sight.
Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.