It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.

An act by which we make one friend and one enemy is a losing game; because revenge is a much stronger principle than gratitude

There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her in love with him than the handsomest man, if he can produce no such conviction. For the love of woman is a shoot, not a seed, and flourishes most vigorously only when ingrafted on that love which is rooted in the breast of another.

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.