Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.

The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

Pride is founded not on the sense of happiness, but on the sense of power.

As we advance in life, we acquire a keener sense of the value of time. Nothing else, indeed, seems of any consequence; and we become misers in this respect.