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

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

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

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

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.