Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

He is a hypocrite who professes what he does not believe; not he who does not practice all he wishes or approves.

We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.