Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.
A man's own vanity is a swindler that never lacks for a dupe.
Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.
A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may be penitent and amend; but a spy is always a spy, night and day, in bed, at table, as he walks abroad; his vileness pervades every moment of his life
Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.
Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.