Knavery is supple, and can bend, but honesty is firm and upright and yields not.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.

Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.