Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

To scatter praise or blame without regard to justice is to destroy the distinction of good and evil. Many have no other test of actions than general opinion; and all are so far influenced by a sense of reputation that they are often restrained by fear of reproach, and excited by hope of honour, when other principles have lost their power.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.