To prevent evil is the great end of government, the end for which vigilance and severity are properly employed.

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.

Madam, before you flatter a man so grossly to his face, you should consider whether or not your flattery is worth his having.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.