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

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.

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

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

Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.