I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

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.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.