We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.