Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages.

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

I would advise no man to marry who is not likely to propagate understanding.

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws.