For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

Life is the soul's nursery.

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.