The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

Be assured that, although men of eminent genius have been guilty of all other vices, none worthy of more than a secondary name has ever been a gamester. Either an excess of avarice or a deficiency of what, in physics, is called excitability, is the cause of it; neither of which can exist in the same bosom with genius, with patriotism, or with virtue.

When a cat flatters ... he is not insincere: you may safely take it for real kindness.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.