Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

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

The intelligence of affection is carried on by the eye only; good-breeding has made the tongue falsify the heart, and act a part of continued restraint, while nature has preserved the eyes to herself, that she may not be disguised or misrepresented.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.