Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.