Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other.

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

One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us and whereto our passions transport us. But those which by long habit are rooted in a strong and anchored in a powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies, which diverts us here and there.

'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

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

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.