Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
Calamity is the test of integrity.
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.