The wisest man may be wiser to-day than he was yesterday, and to-morrow than he is to-day. Total freedom from change would imply total freedom from error; but this is the prerogative of Omniscience alone.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.

Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.