Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.
We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!
Virtue is the first title of nobility.
The true touchstone of wit is the impromptu.
There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.