The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

The more you do, the more you can do.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

A certain excess of animal spirits with thoughtless good-humor will often make more enemies than the most deliberate spite and ill-nature, which is on its guard, and strikes with caution and safety.

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.