If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

It has been said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they are more lasting than those of the body; but I do not remember to have heard it said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they make those of the body more lasting.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.