Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

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.

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