There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

The mathematicians are well acquainted with the difference between pure science, which has only to do with ideas, and the application of its laws to the use of life, in which they are constrained to submit to the imperfections of matter and the influence of accidents.

As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labor.

None but those who have learned the art of subjecting their senses as well as reason to hypothetical systems can be persuaded by the most specious rhetorician that the lots of life are equal; yet it cannot be denied that every one has his peculiar pleasures and vexations, that external accidents operate variously upon different minds, and that no man can exactly judge from his own sensations what another would feel in the same circumstances.