Public calamity is a mighty leveller.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.
Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.