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

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

Sudden love is latest cured.

How much wit, good-nature, indulgences, how many good offices and civilities, are required among friends to accomplish in some years what a lovely face or a fine hand does in a minute!

The nearer we come to great men the more clearly we see that they are only men. They rarely seem great to their valets.

Manners carry the world for the moment, character for all time.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.