Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
I see when men love women, they give them but a little of their lives. But women, when they love give everything.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.