Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.

He who does nothing renders himself incapable of doing any thing; but while we are executing any work, we are preparing and qualifying ourselves to undertake another.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.

They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We see ourselves at second-hand in them: they show us all that we are, all that we wish to be, and all that we dread to be. What brings the resemblance nearer is, that, as they imitate us, we, in our turn, imitate them. There is no class of society whom so many persons regard with affection as actors.