Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.

Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.