Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.

Miss Edgeworth and Mme. de Stael have proved that there is no sex in style; and Mme. la Roche Jacqueline, and the Duchesse d'Angouleme have proved that there is no sex in courage.

You cannot separate charity and religion.

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

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