Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

When you talk to the half-wise, twaddle; when you talk to the ignorant, brag; when you talk to the sagacious, look very humble and ask their opinion.

Men are valued, not for what they are, but for what they seem to be.

Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.