*Reading does not make a man wise; it only makes him learned.

*Respectability is the cloak under which fools cover their stupidity.

*No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention

*The man who in these conditions listens tolerantly to your opinion and allows that you may be as right as he, is a friend indeed. ~ Page 16

*How happy life would be if an undertaking retained to the end the delight of its beginning, if the dregs of a cup of wine were as sweet as the first sip.

*However much you may dislike a relation, and whatever ill you may yourself say of him, you do not like others to say anything which shows him in a ridiculous or objectionable light; since the discredit throws on your relation reflects upon yourself and wounds your vanity. ~