"The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!"

"When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction."

"What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?"

"Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest."

"Poverty cannot deprive us of many consolations. It cannot rob us of the affection we have for each other, or degrade us in our own opinion, of in that of any person, whose opinion we ought to value."

"Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow."

"There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses."

"A person who trusts no one can't be trusted."

"You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

"The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust."

"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great."