There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.