Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

I love a friendship that flatters itself in the sharpness and vigor of its communications.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

God defend me from being an honest man according to the description which every day I see made by each man to his own glorification

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

The relish of good and evil depends in a great measure upon the opinion we have of them.