Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

Reason speaks and feeling bites

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind.

Character is simply habit long continued.

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Words will build no walls.