The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice.

Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.

We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.