Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence.
Loud-dressing men and women have also loud characters.
The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
Ceremony is all backbone.
Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend, not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion.
Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.