Beware of the beginnings of vice. Do not delude yourself with the belief that it can be argued against in the presence of the exciting cause. Nothing but actual flight can save you.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Fortunately for serious minds, a bias recognized is a bias sterilized.

There must be more malice than love in the hearts of all wits.

The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

Satan is to be punished eternally in the end, but for a while he triumphs.