The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.

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.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.