The future is purchased by the present.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

Rain is good for vegetables, and for the animals who eat those vegetables, and for the animals who eat those animals.

The first step to greatness is to be honest.

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

The love of fame is a passion natural and universal, which no man, however high or mean, however wise or ignorant, was yet able to despise.

To build is to be robbed.