It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Man is my brother, and I am nearer related to him through his vices than I am through his virtue.

Young widows still bide their time.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

If men were stubborn just in proportion as they were right, stubbornness would take her seat among the virtues; but men are generally stubborn just in proportion as they are ignorant and wrong.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.