In politics, as in religion, it so happens, that we have less charity for those who believe the half of our creed, than for those that deny the whole of it; since if Servetus had been a Mohammedan, he would not have been burnt by Calvin.

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.

Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

He that can enjoy the intimacy of the great, and on no occasion disgust them by familiarity, or disgrace himself by servility, proves that he is as perfect a gentleman by nature as his companions are by rank.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.