Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

Our actions must clothe us with an immortality loathsome or glorious.

The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.