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

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.

If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?

Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.

In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.

Avarice is the vice of declining years.