If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

I would rather make my name than inherit it.

Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.

As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.

It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.