It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.

There are many women who have never intrigued, and many men who have never gamed; but those who have done either but once are very extraordinary animals.

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.