True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

The best way to make ourselves agreeable to others is by seeming to think them so. If we appear fully sensible of their good qualities they will not complain of the want of them in us.