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.

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

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.

A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.