The great fault in women is to desire to be like men.

Every country has the government it deserves.

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

What a miserable world!--trouble if we love, and trouble if we do not love.

Every individual or national degeneration is immediately revealed by a directly proportional degradation in language.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.