Sudden love is latest cured.

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

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

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest ma to do.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.