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.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

True joy is only hope put out of fear.

Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.