First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

Nothing gives such a blow to friendship as the detecting another in an untruth. It strikes at the root of our confidence ever after.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.