Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others

Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten; but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction: memory, once interrupted, is not to be recalled. Written learning is a fixed luminary, which, after the cloud that had hidden it has passed away, is again bright in its proper station. Tradition is but a meteor, which, if once it falls, cannot be rekindled.

There is always something a woman will prefer to the truth.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Nothing can be truly great which is not right.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.