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

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.