Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.
Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?
All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.
There will he nothing more that posterity can add to our immoral habits; our descendants must have the same desires and act the same follies as their sires. Every vice has reached its zenith.
By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.
Make all fair allowance for the mistakes of youth.