Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.

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

Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty.

When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.