The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.

As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.

Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved by a true estimation of another's weakness, thousands have been destroyed by a false appreciation of their own strength.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.