Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.

Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.

One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?