Arbitrary power has seldom... been introduced in any country at once. It must be introduced by slow degrees, and as it were step by step.

The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

How often should a woman be pregnant? Continually, or hardly ever? Or must there be a certain number of pregnancy anniversaries established by fashion? What do you, at the age of forty-three, have to say on the subject? Is it a fact that the laws of nature, or of the country, or of propriety, have ordained this time of life for sterility?

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.