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.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

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

We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.

The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.