It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.