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.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

It is not until we have passed through the furnace that we are made to know how much dross there is in our composition.

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.

He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.