His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

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

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

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.