There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.