A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
Perhaps propriety is as near a word as any to denote the manners of the gentleman; elegance is necessary to the fine gentleman; dignity is proper to noblemen; and majesty to kings.