The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

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 can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me