Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

Without constancy there is neither love, friendship, nor virtue in the world.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.