Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

Night is the other half of life, and the better half.

If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse; if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.

What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.