Haste is always ungraceful.

When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

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

... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.