“He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.”

Out of many evils the evil which is least is the least of evils.

There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it.

Fortitude is a great help in distress.

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

Your piping-hot lie is the best of lies.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

No blessing lasts forever.

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

You will not be a chip the richer.

For nobody is curious, who isn’t malevolent.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

It is good to love in a moderate degree; to distraction, it is not good; but to love to entire distraction, is the thing that my master’s doing.

How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.

There’s no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it’s only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Disgrace is immortal, and living even when one thinks it dead.

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you’ve got to keep your feet warm.

All I want is you and me wrapped in embrace for all eternity.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

God gives us our relatives – thank God we can choose our friends.

It’s a significant question: should black people only adopt black children, and white people white children?

The woman who has the best perfume is she who has none.

The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.