The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.

The foundation of domestic happiness is faith in the virtue of woman.

Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.

We are poor, indeed, when we have no half-wishes left us. The heart and the imagination close the shutters the instant they are gone.

We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise.

When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until nature as in compassion covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more.