If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

Dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

There is no pleasure to me without communication; there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind but I grieve that I have no one to tell it to.

It is good to rub and polish our brains against that of others.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.