The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority; envy our uneasiness under it.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

Nothing sharpens sight like envy.

When the vices give us up we flatter ourselves that we are giving up them.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.