We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

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

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

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

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.

Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.