Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.