There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.