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

The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.