Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

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.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.