Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

Books wind into the heart.

From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.