Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.