Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Manners are the shadows of virtues; the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love, and respect.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.