To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.