And learn the luxury of doing good.

When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

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

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.