There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

It is a wretched thing to live on the fame of others.

We do not commonly find men of superior sense amongst those of the highest fortune.

Honesty is praised and left in the cold.

A rare bird upon the earth and very much like a black swan.

Only death reveals what a nothing the body of man is.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.