Of what avail are pedigrees?
Examples of vicious courses practiced in a domestic circle corrupt more readily and more deeply when we behold them in persons in authority.
He will be the last to discover the disgrace of his house.
Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.
Let nothing offensive to the ear or the eye enter these thresholds, within which youth dwells.
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.