If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.