Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds..

The personal pronoun "I" should be the coat of arms of some individuals..

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit..

It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains..

True felicity consists of its own consciousness..

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!.

Vices are often habits rather than passions..

The methods that help a man acquire a fortune are the very ones that keep him from enjoying it..

The world is governed by love,--self-love..

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections..

Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches..

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius..

If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time..

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy..

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as t….

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea..

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech..

There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit..

There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one..

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitu….

Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors..