Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

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

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.

Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can ascertain success; death may intercept the swiftest career; but he who is cut off in the execution of an honest undertaking has at least the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he missed the victory.