When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations they owe, merely because they think it in some measure cancels the debt.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.