Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

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.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

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

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.