He loves little who loves by rule.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

Men throw themselves on foreign assistances to spare their own, which, after all, are the only certain and sufficient ones.

How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.

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?