The more laws, the less justice.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money. Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

The face is a picture of the mind with the eyes as its interpreter.

If we lose affection and kindliness from our life: we lose all that gives it charm.

Frivolity is inborn, conceit acquired by education.

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.