A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

Envy is littleness of soul.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

In what we really understand, we reason but little.

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

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.