The higher the rank the less pretence, because there is less to pretend to.

Alone!-that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

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.

The veil which covers the face of futurity is woven by the hand of mercy.

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

Men never forgive those in whom there is nothing to pardon.