Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.