The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.

True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.

Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.