Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

Friendship is love without its flowers or veil.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.

A mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.