I am willing to love all of mankind, except an American.

No man sympathizes with the sorrows of vanity.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Round numbers are always false.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

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

To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.