The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

The expression of a gentleman's face is not so much that of refinement, as of flexibility, not of sensibility and enthusiasm as of indifference; it argues presence of mind rather than enlargement of ideas.

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.