A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate or fear, they implicitly believe in, merely from the scope it gives to these passions.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it