I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may mot be subdued by discipline.

For greed all nature is too little.