There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

For a woman to be at once a coquette and a bigot is more than the humblest of husbands can bear; she should mercifully choose between the two.

Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.