Birth means nothing where there is no virtue.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.