No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap

Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

Nothing is more audacious than these women when detected; they assume anger, and take courage from the very crime itself.

Do you expect, forsooth, that a mother will hand down to her children principles which differ from her own?

A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.