Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.