Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.

Attack is the reaction. I never think I have hit hard unless it rebounds.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.