As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.

Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.

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

The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.