Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.

Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence.

To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood.