Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.

I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.