Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?