It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

It is safer to quote what is written than what is spoken. What a man writes it is fair to presume he believes as a matter of general conviction, but it is not so with what he utters in the freedom of conversation. In that he may only express the feeling of the moment, and not his settled judgment, or matured opinion.

It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all.

Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.