Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.