Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

Government mitigates the inequality of power, and makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow-subjects.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.