There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!

The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.