He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.