Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.

Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat.

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.