It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color.
Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.
A little evil is often necessary for obtaining a great good.
The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
Injustice in the end produces independence.