Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.

There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.