It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

I doubt if there ever was a man who was not gratified by being told that he was liked by the women.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.