In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.