Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

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

Men hate more steadily than they love.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.