The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.

The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.

When one can do better than everyone else in the same walk, one does not make any very painful exertions to outdo oneself. The progress of improvement ceases nearly at the point where competition ends.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.