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

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

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

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

Sedition is bred in the lap of luxury and its chosen emissaries are the beggared spendthrift and the impoverished libertine.

The measure of progress of civilization is the progress of the people.

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