To think of shadows is a serious thing.
He is the best gentleman that is the son of his own deserts, and not the degenerated heir of another's virtue.
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.
A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.