Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes first to her lips, and thinks she is gay when she is only giddy.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

We make our own fortune and call it destiny.