A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.

When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.

People can commend the weather without envy.

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.