The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.

A brave man hazards life, but not his conscience.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.

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

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.