There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

To build is to be robbed.

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.