Apologies are seldom of any use.

If the abuse be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death.

Suspicion is very often a useless pain.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

There are charms made only for distant admiration.