One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

We go on a journey to be free of all impediments; to leave ourselves behind much more than to get rid of others

We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.

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

The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.