To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.

To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

Life is the art of being well deceived.

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

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.