To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then down again, trying to prove an argument in the teeth of facts, and looking for causes in the dark, and not finding them?

Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.