No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.
Your religion...serves you only for an excuse for your faults, but is no incentive to your virtue.
It is as possible for a man to know something without having been at school, as it is to have been at school and to know nothing.
Genius,thou gift of heaven; without whose aid in vain we struggle against the stream of nature.
Slander is a more cruel weapon than a sword, as the wounds which the former gives are always incurable.
It hath been observed, by wise men or women, I forget which, that all persons are doomed to be in love once in their lives.
A treacherous friend is the most dangerous enemy.
If you're going to be a star, you should look like one.