We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

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

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.

All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise.

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.