Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.

The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.