The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.

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

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.

Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.