If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism.

The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.