What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

We do not marry for ourselves, whatever we say; we marry just as much or more for our posterity, for our family. The practice and benefit of marriage concerns our race very far beyond us.

Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.