The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

America has begun her career at the culminating point of life, as Adam did at the age of thirty.

Attention is a silent and perpetual flattery.