Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.

Whatever the poets pretend, it is plain they give immortality to none but themselves; it is Homer and Virgil we reverence and admire, not Achilles or Aeneas. With historians it is quite the contrary; our thoughts are taken up with the actions, persons, and events we read, and we little regard the authors.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.