Wit in women is a jewel, which, unlike all others, borrows lustre from its setting, rather than bestows it; since nothing is so easy as to fancy a very beautiful woman extremely witty.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Mystery is not profoundness.

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.