No men deserve the title of infidels so little as those to whom it has been usually applied; let any of those who renounce Christianity, write fairly down in a book all the absurdities that they believe instead of it, and they will find that it requires more faith to reject Christianity than to embrace it.

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.

The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.