The science of the laws is the slow growth of time and experience.

The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference in age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

There is more pleasure to building castles in the air than on the ground.

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice question of casuistry was seriously agitated, Whether those tender victims, who had inflexibly refused their consent to the violation which they sustained, had lost, by their misfortune, the glorious crown of virginity. There were other losses indeed of a more substantial kind and more general concern.