Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

Softness of smile indicates softness of character.

His calumny is not only the greatest benefit a rogue can confer on us, but the only service he will perform for nothing.

He who purposely cheats his friend would cheat his God.

Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.

Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.

Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.