You cannot always run from a weakness. You must sometime fight it out or perish.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

You can't tell anyone anything. You have to teach people for them to remember. Let the person experience what you are teaching and they will learn.

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.

To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new.

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.