The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.