What are the publications that succeed? Those that pretend to teach the public that the persons they have been accustomed unwittingly to look up to as the lights of the earth are no better than themselves.

Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.

True modesty and true pride are much the same thing: both consist in setting a just value on ourselves - neither more nor less.

Malice often takes the garb of truth.

Silence is one great art of conversation.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.