We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.