A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

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

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

People are always willing to follow advice when it accords with their own wishes.