Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.

The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

There is more jealousy between rival wits than rival beauties, for vanity has no sex. But in both cases there must be pretensions, or there will be no jealousy.

A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.