The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.