If a handsome woman allows that another woman is beautiful, we may safely conclude she excels her.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.

We seldom repent talking little, but very often talking too much.

The mind, like all other things, will become impaired, the sciences are its food,--they nourish, but at the same time they consume it.

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.