Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.
To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.
Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.