Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.

It is a mistake, that a lust for power is the mark of a great mind; for even the weakest have been captivated by it; and for minds of the highest order, it has no charms.

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.