Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.