To appear rich, we become poor.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

Love and enthusiasm are always ridiculous, when not reciprocated by their objects.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

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

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.