Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

Few things are needful to make the wise man happy, but nothing satisfies the fool; - and this is the reason why so many of mankind are miserable.

Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.

We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

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