Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

There is no magician like love.

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

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

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.