The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

We must be doing something to be happy.

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them.