"You're a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to what ever needs it."

"Extreme law is often extreme injustice."

"To touch a sore is to renew one's grief."

"The anger of lovers renews their love."

"Of my friends I am the only one left."

"Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."

"Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion."

"What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense."

"In fact nothing is said that has not been said before."

"While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse."

"Their silence is praise enough."

"For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness."

"I do not give money for just mere hopes."

"Nothing is said that has not been said before."

"How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for."

"You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time."

"Fortune favors the brave."

"He makes a great mistake... who supposes that authority is firmer or better established when it is founded by force than that which is welded by affection."

"So many men, so many opinions."

"This I consider to be a valuable principle in life: Do no thing in excess."

"We are all of us the worse for too much liberty."

"Moderation in all things."

"How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy."

"Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist."

"Where there's life, there's hope."

"You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly."

"I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me."

"Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong."

"There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right."

"I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me."

"They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head."

"Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not."

"Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own."

"Too much liberty corrupts us all."

"They are so knowing, that they know nothing."

"I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing."

"Lovers quarrels are the renewal of love."

"What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!"

"I am human and let nothing human be alien to me."