That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.

Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.

By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse. With the accomplishment of our revenge our fondness returns; so that we feel the injury we have done them, even more than they do.

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

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 seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.