It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.

A man's ancestry is a positive property to him.

When you borrow on your character, it is your character that you leave in pawn.

What is human is immortal!

The haughty woman who can stand alone, and requires no leaning-place in our hearts, loses the spell of her sex.