Women have two weapons - cosmetics and tears

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

In sovereignty there are no gradations.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.