Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Those who do not feel pain seldom think that it is felt.

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.