The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the treasures which he bears about him will only sink him deeper in the abyss.

The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.