People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large.

There are some errors so sweet that we repent them only to bring them to memory.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

It is more pitiable once to have been rich than not to be rich now.

The virtuous woman flees from danger; she trusts more to her prudence in shunning it than in her strength to overcome it.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.