Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.
The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.