Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

He who can lead you to believe an absurdity can lead you to commit an atrocity.

He who cannot shine by thought, seeks to bring himself into notice by a witticism.

Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

Everything I see about me is sowing the seeds of a revolution that is inevitable, though I shall not have the pleasure of seeing it. The lightning is so close at hand that it will strike at the first chance, and then there will be a pretty uproar. The young are fortunate, for they will see fine things.

Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value - zero.