A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

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

It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.