Silence gives consent.

Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

Crimes generally punish themselves.

I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.