Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.

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

This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.

When you find out a man's ruling passion, beware of crossing him in it.

By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

Every man depends on the quantity of sense, wit, or good manners he brings into society for the reception he meets with in it.