A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Ah! how annoying that the law doesn't allow a woman to change husbands just as one does shirts.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.