Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

It is easy for men to write and talk like philosophers, but to act with wisdom, there is the rub!

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Mutability is written upon all things.