Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

Where violence reigns, reason is weak.

Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.