Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux.

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Girls must be thwarted early in life.