Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.