Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.

In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

Professors in every branch of the sciences, prefer their own theories to truth: the reason is that their theories are private property, but truth is common stock.