No man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.

I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy