What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
Sensibility is the power of woman.
Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.