Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

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

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

Vulgar prejudices are those which arise out of accident, ignorance, or authority; natural prejudices are those which arise out of the constitution of the human mind itself.

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.

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