Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

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

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

Habit is necessary to give power.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.

We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.