Most men know what they hate, few what they love.

As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes

Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.

Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.

If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.