... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.

Justice satisfies everybody.

you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.