Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us to tower by reason of our blindness.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

It is sufficiently humiliating to our nature to reflect that our knowledge is but as she rivulet, our ignorance as the sea. On points of the highest interest, the moment we quit the light of revelation we shall find that Platonism itself is intimately connected with Pyrrhonism, and the deepest inquiry with the darkest doubt.

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

In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.

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.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.