A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.

A man who is determined never to move out of the beaten road cannot lose his way.

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

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.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.