"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."

"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."

"Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."

"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."

"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."

"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."

"He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place."

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."

"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."

"Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance."

"Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another."

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."

"We ask advice, but we mean approbation."

"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."

"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."

"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."

"Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."

"Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase."

"There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them."

"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."

"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."

"War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies."

"To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author."

"Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder."

"Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false."

"There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool."

"Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others."

"When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good."

"When you have nothing to say, say nothing."

"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later."

"That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time."

"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."

"Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable."

"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."

"Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live."

"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."

"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."

"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost."

"There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter."