The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.

Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always.

A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.