... France is the genius among nations.
Never trust a woman who will not lie about her age after thirty. She is unwomanly and unhuman and there is no knowing what crimes she will commit.
To put a tempting face aside when duty demands every faculty is a lesson which takes most men longest to learn.
[Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.
nothing in life is more corroding than habit.
The final result of too much routine is death in life.