Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.