The most pernicious of absurdities is that weak, blind, stupid faith is better than the constant practice of every human virtue.

Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.

Cruelty in all countries is the companion of anger; but there is only one, and never was another on the globe, where she coquets both with anger and mirth.

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Cats like men are flatterers.

Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.