Virtue does not consist in the absence of the passions, but in the control of them.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Shame is the dying embers of virtue.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

Advice maybe wrong, but examples prove themselves.