Haste is always ungraceful.

The most certain mode of making people content with us is to make them content with themselves.

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.