Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.

Women are proverbially credulous.

Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it; nor at any time in the extremes of it.

He is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.