Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

Revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude

If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.