The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of his deceiver; the wise man is silent, and denies that triumph to an enemy which he would hardly concede to a friend; a triumph that proclaims his own defeat.

Happiness is that single and glorious thing which is the very light and sun of the whole animated universe; and where she is not it were better that nothing should be.

The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of making others happy.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.