As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some men with whom a slight acquaintance is quite sufficient to draw out all that is agreeable; a more intimate one would be unsafe and unsatisfactory.

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

Consult duty not events.

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.