Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

He who fears not, is to be feared.

There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

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

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.