I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

Successful people aren't born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don't like to do. The successful people don't always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.

Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.