Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand.

It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

Glory consists of two parts: the one in setting too great a value upon ourselves, and the other in setting too little a value upon others.

How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.