Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.

As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.