A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.