Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

Tears fell from my eyes - yes, weak and foolish as it now appears to me, I wept for my departed youth; and for that beauty of which the faithful mirror too plainly assured me, no remnant existed.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.