It is a remarkable circumstance in reference to cunning persons that they are often deficient not only in comprehensive, far-sighted wisdom, but even….

Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices..

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man..

Trust, therefore, for the overcoming of a difficulty, not to long-continued study after you have once become bewildered, but to repeated trials at in….

Better too much form than too little..

It is quite possible, and not uncommon, to read most laboriously, even so as to get by heart the words of a book, without really studying it at all,-….

Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the chara….

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed, we see most dimly the objects which are close around us..

It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily ….

It is folly to shiver over last year's snow..

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose..

Fancy, when once brought into religion, knows not where to stop. It is like one of those fiends in old stories which any one could raise, but which, ….

Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, an….

Grace is in a great measure a natural gift; elegance implies cultivation; or something of more artificial character. A rustic, uneducated girl may be….

Of all hostile feelings, envy is perhaps the hardest to be subdued, because hardly any one owns it even to himself, but looks out for one pretext aft….

It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequen….

An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end to which the action le….

Good manners are a part of good morals..

Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to ….

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar..

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's..