Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.
Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.
False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived.
Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society