Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

To be intimate with a foolish friend is like going to bed to a razor.

To be proud of virtue is to poison oneself with the antidote.

To be thrown upon one’s own resources, is to be cast in the very lap of fortune.

To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.

To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

To he proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.