Never raise expectations in others that you cannot realize: promise is less pleasing than disappointment is vexatious.

Jealousy seldom punishes with the severity it suffers.

Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.

All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.

The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.

The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.

I'm thankful for women. I think women are more intelligent than men. Also, without women, there would be no cookies.