Experience is the extract of suffering.

Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.

Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.

The measure of civilization in a people is to be found in its just appreciation of the wrongfulness of war.

It is better in some respects to be admired by those with whom you live than to be loved by them; and this not on account of any gratification of vanity, but because admiration is so much more tolerant than love.