It is remarkable how virtuous and generously disposed every one is at a play.
We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.