843  To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.

710  In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

582  A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

767  There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

833  The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.