A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.

We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.

The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.

We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.