In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.

Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.

Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

Judicious books enlarge the mind and improve the heart.

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.

How frequently has melancholy and even misanthropy taken possession of me, when the world has disgusted me, and friends have proven unkind. I have then considered myself as a particle broken off from the grand mass of mankind.