It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

While our pulse beats and we feel emotion, let us put off the business. Things will truly seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. It is passion that is in command at first, it is passion that speaks, it is not we ourselves.

It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another; they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

When a Roman was returning from a trip, he used to send someone ahead to let his wife know, so as not to surprise her in the act.

Books are a languid pleasure.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.