Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.