I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.
Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.
An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.
Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.
Vanity is but the surface.
Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.