To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.

True friendship is self-love at second-hand.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.

We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

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

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.