The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

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.

Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.

There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.