We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.

The brief span of our poor unhappy life to its final hour Is hastening on; and while we drink and call for gay wreaths, Perfumes, and young girls, old age creeps upon us, unperceived.

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.

By his own verdict no guilty man was ever acquitted.

Nothing is so intolerable as a woman with a long purse.